The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal aud Local.

ut this point, has been i'll Chicago for two or |
ahrse days prospecting.
NJ f Ingalls, president of the c., l.. ST l.. & |
-, mas postponed bis trip across the water one |
month and Will sail about the lst OF May.
Fl. C. Dering. assistant general passenger
agent o.. the Pennsylvania lines west OF Pitts-
burg. is off on extended Northwestern trip.
s. Sweet has been appointed general
fregi and passenger agent of the Indianapolis
Pern& Chicago Dad under the new deal "nich
goes into effect the 18th Of this mouth
The Illinois Central people have given notice
that the LIST of April they will withdraw from
all pools. This would indicate that the e., L.,
St Ia & Q. is to pull out of Chicago on through
business east-bound.
Mr.. Hannaman. organizer of the brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, last Saturday organ
lied chapter of the lodge in Brazil Ind. with
"a membership of about twenty. VIM. LAIR was
elected grand master.
J. d. Laying. the new president of the Decline,
General Manager Beach and number OF subor-
dinate officers leave Cleveland today on an IN.
sppciion trip of the system 1t is expected that
they will be In this city this evening.
T. G. Warrington is experimenting the drill
ing for coal the /. 81 ST. L., in the interest of
a newly formed Indianapolis coal company. The
company viii put down one, and perhaps two,
shafts during the spring and summer.
Timber frstclass locomotives are beginning
to bring the L., II. A. d c. TO the front as arriV
ing at terminals on time. Yesterday the day
express left Monon fftyth minutes late, and
ran into the Union Depot at Indianapolis but
four minutes behind time.
A circular issued yesterday by the Chicago
Santa Fe 81 California Railway Company tthe
A.. Il. & S. f. extension), states that Emmons
Blaine has been appointed general freight and
passenger agent of the road. He will enter
upon his duties April /.
The fact that mileage tickets are to be sold at
1926 per 1000, q cents per mile, good until the
Sd of July, is construed to mean that the sale of
mileage tickets is to be continued after that
date, or, should they be withdrawn. the rates on
all tickets will be made p cents per mile
General Manager Moore, of the Indiana Mid
land road, is in the city. He states that trains
will be put to run from Anderson to Leba-
non, Ind. by the first of next month. Surfacing
.pp and ballasting is being pushed as fast as pos
Deible and the road will be in good shape to ham
die business at its opening.
Commissioner Fink has issued a call for
another meeting of presidents and general man
ayers of the trunk lines, which will be the last
meeting probably of the high officials under the
auspices of what for some years has been known
as the trunk-lne pool If the association is con-
tinued it will be under some other name.
The Bee-line Gazette for March is out and is
an unusually bright and newsy number. This
journal improves with age. The March issue
contains an excellent portrait of A. j. Smith, the
late general passenger agent OF the Bee-line as
we'll as avery complimentary biographical sketch
of the official who stands SO high in railroad cir
cles.
Export shipments out of Indianapolis have
not been so light for many years as at the pres
emit time. Kiugan & Co., who have for years
past averaged to ship twenty to twenty five car
loads OF hog products for export per day, are
now shipping none Prices are so much higher
in the American market that 1t does not pay to
ship such product abroad.
1t is settled that all classes of excursion ard
tourists tickets off sale on the first of next
month, and probably land explorers tickets will
share the same fate. The question whether
round-trip tickets shall come off sale on that
mont among general passenger agents in favor
of continuing on sale round trip tickets.
The State of Massachusetts will have another
opportunity for railroad investigation if the
Williamsburg & North Adams road is built
Why the enormous cost of boring Hoosac tunnel
should ever have been expended il feasible
route existed around the mountain which could
be utilized at cost comparatively trif1ing, is
a question which Legislative lovers of investiga-
tions of acts of their predecessors will delight in
bordering.
e. st. John, general passenger agent of the
Chicago e. Rock Island road. is in the city The
growth of this system is now 80 rapid that it
takes wide-awake passenger officials to keep
track of the construction parties The company
is now reaching into the Indian Territory at the
rate of two miles per day, and moving in other
directions nearly as rapidly. The passenger
and freight men follow close upon the heels OF
for business.
After FIVE years of dilly -dallying the j., NJ &
l. people are in a fair way to in few days gel
the ''Y" in by which they will connect with the
Belt road and then haul their long freight trains
over the Belt road and relieve the Union tracks
that much. The 'Y" will probably be complet
ed so that the change can be made on Sunday
next Before the trains of the indianapolis
Vincennes. which are nearly as much of an
noyance on the Union tracks, can be run around
over the Belt road heavy fill has to be made
But this work, it is said, is soon to be com
menced.
The Decline Gazette says that the general
passenger and ticket department of the Michigan
Central railroad is to be moved from Chicago Il
Detroit, where the ma ority of their Offices art
already located F. l. Whitney will, it il
said at this writing, resign the assistant genera
passenger and ticket agency Of the line. and al
the slate is now marked, w. Il. Busenbark, gen
eral Eastern agent is to be made assistant gen
eral passenger agent, and Geo. e. King tickle
accountant is to be promoted to the Office of as
sistant general ticket agent.
The Pennsylvania Company has asked all gen
eral passenger agents who purpose to attend tn,
seml-annual general ticket agents convention
10 be held In Washington D. c., next week, OF
the 18th, to take their line. Free Transportation
for themselves and wives will be furnished; also
eleepin gear accommodations. To accommodate,
thus travel, special Pullman cars will be at
tached to the fast express trains out of St
Louis Chicago Louisville and Cincinnati OF
Sunday next The St Louis coach will leav,
that city on Sunday at 9 A. NJ and pass through
indianapolis at 4:35 p NJ.
On the Chicago division of the Baltimore 4
Ohio road the pay of conductors and brakemel
is from 80 to 40 per cent less than that of tn
Same grades on the Michigan division of tn
Lake Shore, which is parallel to the Baltmor
d Ohio. A conductor on one road gets abou
the same as brakeman on the other. TIL
Michigan division of the Lake Shore is famou
for the few accidents which occur. There i
probably no railway in the world running a
many trains over a single track and employing
many men where there are fewer accidents &
persons and property than on this division.
Col A. B. Jewett. Of St Johnshnrx VI dia,